Category Archives: Labour Party

October 20th – 2 Days To Go!

Only two days to go to the big day. For more details of the route, timings and handy hints for new marchers click here to read Unite’s latest e-bulletin. Please feel free to foreward the e-bulletin onto your contacts.

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URGENT! Fight To Oppose The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (ERR) Bill

Tomorrow the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats are launching their latest assault on employment rights. We need to defeat a bill that could adversely affect the lives of millions of people. Vince Cable and the Tory-led government will bring … Continue reading

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Turning employees into ‘owners’? The falsest promise yet

By Nicola Countouris, Mark Freedland and Jeremias Prassl Three employment law experts look into the “deeply worrying” shares-for-rights trade off proposed by George Osborne at the recent Conservative Conference. At the Conservative Party Conference, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced … Continue reading

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Labour Party Conference – One Nation Under A Groove

This weeks Labour Party Conference was of course dominated by Ed Miliband’s wonderfully executed speech on Tuesday – now dubbed by some Unite wags as ‘One Nation Under A Groove’ (See Funkadelic, 1978). Described by Len McCluskey as a tour-de-force, … Continue reading

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The new recession is directly made in Downing Street

By Michael Burke The final release for UK GDP in the 2nd quarter of 2012 showed a small upward revision to recorded growth. But this still showed a contraction of 0.4% of GDP for a third consecutive decline. Real GDP is … Continue reading

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US Election: Romney Invested In ‘Brutal Chinese Sweatshop’

US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, while CEO of Bain Capital, knowingly invested in a brutal Chinese sweatshop which it is believed to be the company he was describing in detail at the same Boca Raton fundraising event where he made his … Continue reading

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Improving Yields And Destroying The Environment

By Michael Burke A short but very interesting item was recently broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. A recording of the programme can be replayed here where a summary is also available. The report highlighted a disaster in the production of … Continue reading

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USW video : How Obama saved the US auto industry

When President Obama took the bold step of saving the U.S. auto industry, he didn’t just save auto assembly jobs. He saved American manufacturing, including 350,000 USW jobs that are part of the auto supply chain. The auto rescue helped … Continue reading

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John Hendy QC “General strike could be legal”

In this video from Union News John Hendy QC spells out how a general strike could be legal – should the TUC decide to go ahead with a day of action. John has co-authored the employment law book ‘Days Of … Continue reading

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Massive attack on employment rights being planned in Mexico

IndustriALL Global Union and its affiliates in the Tri-National Solidarity Alliance (TNSA) are leading opposition to labour law reforms being fast-tracked through the Mexican parliament. The legislation would intensify the serious obstacles already facing workers and democratic and independent trade … Continue reading

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